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Some Blogs Are Fit For Print

Dagsbrun, an Icelandic publishing company, is launching free daily newspapers in 10 U.S. cities in the coming months, and blog content will make a significant portion of each issue.

According to a report from WBUR’s Curt Nickisch on today’s Morning Edition from NPR, BostonNOW — which starts circulation today —...

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Popularity on the Internet: E-mail this post!

The Onion, the satirical news outlet, launched its newspaper here in Washington, DC today. Finally, the nation’s capital has journalistic integrity!

When I received a copy last evening (today’s news yesterday – I love it!) a front page headline caught my attention. It is:”‘Most E-Mailed’ List Tearing New York Times‘...

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Web 3.0?

Don't ask me what exactly web 3.0 is, but Jason Vallery has a good summary of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media meeting held last week in Boulder, CO, where web 3.0 was discussed.  His summary:

"While the future is far from certain, one thing is for sure....

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Political Activists and Social Networks

My post about the use of Digg by Ron Paul activists attracted a strong response from Ron Paul supporters.  In comments on Digg and to my post, many folks acknowledged that they signed up for Digg specifically to submit and digg stories about Ron Paul. 

This was already pretty obvious. ...

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Comment Ordering: First-to-Last or Last-to-First?

USA Today has an interesting post on their Community Center blog about their decision to post the latest comments on articles and blog entries first.  Most blogs (including this one) post comments in chronological order instead of reverse chronological.  Here is USA Today's explanation of the decision:

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